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Glossary 4

English Vocabulary

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Black women´s existence, experience and culture and the brutally complex systems of oppression which shape these (B.Smith). (BLACK-WOMAN) INVISIBILITY
Learned magazines which publish scholarly articles. ACADEMIC JOURNALS
A term which refers to the systematic stereotyping of and discrimination against people because they are old. AGEISM
Art which focuses on, is inspired by and gives the perspective of Black women. BLACK-WOMAN IDENTIFIED ART
A term in radical and lesbian theory for the enforcement of  heterosexuality. It includes the ideological and political control of women’s sexuality COMPULSORY HETEROSEXUALITY
The main mechanism underlying and perpetuating male dominance (Adrienne Rich). COMPULSORY HETEROSEXUALITY
Weakens, removes power from (in this case, women) DISEMPOWER
(adj.) Causes extreme indignation, irritation, annoyance. GALLING
The study of gender as an analytical reference. GENDER STUDIES
Denotes the cultural constitution of femininity or masculinity, the notions concerning what is  ‘appropriate’ to either gender, and the ways in which these serve ideologically to maintain gendered identities.   GENDER
The belief that heterosexuality is the only “normal  mode of sexual and social relations. HETEROCENTRITY
The practice of viewing reality (or human relations) from a heterosexual perspective. HETEROCENTRITY
Term that avoid the clinical ring of lesbianism asn refers to all experiences shared by women, experiences that strengthen bonds among themselves and against male oppression. LESBIAN CONTINUUM
Term that avoid the clinical ring of lesbianism and refers to the actual presence of lesbians, past and present LESBIAN EXISTENCE
A critical practice in which the defining feature is making sexual orientation a fundamental category of analysis and understanding. LESBIAN/GAY CRITICISM
A critical practice that creates an alternative canon of lesbian/gay writer´s works. LESBIAN/GAY CRITICISM
A critical practice that equates the sense of being lesbian or gay with the metaphorical transgression of boundaries or limits of the “normal”. LESBIAN/GAY CRITICISM
A critical practice that exposes homosexual characteristics of standard literary works. LESBIAN/GAY CRITICISM
A critical practice that focuses on literary genres which have strongly shaped western standards of masculinity or femininity. LESBIAN/GAY CRITICISM
A critical practice that reveals the homophobia of standard literature and criticism which suppress certain explicitly homosexual material or simply fail to study it. LESBIAN/GAY CRITICISM
A critical practice that selects lesbian/gay passages in standard literary works and analyze them as such. LESBIAN/GAY CRITICISM
The moral and legal privilege to intervene in all aspects of a woman´s life. MALE RIGHT OF ACCESS
(v. numb) To remove all sensations from; to paralyze, stupefy. NUMBING
Ignorant of, blind or insensitive towards. OBLIVIOUS
Apparent seeming, not real feminists (Barbara Smith). OSTENSIBLE FEMINISTS
(v. overwhelm) To overpower with emotion, bury or drown beneath a huge mass, submerge utterly. OVERWHELMING
A critical practice that rejects female separatism and istead sees an identity of political and social interests with gay men. T he term is intended to mark a critical distance from the earlier and marginalized ‘gay and le QUEER THEORY (OR QUEER STUDIES)
The political character of race which is based on the unequal power of white-black relations. RACIAL POLITICS
The political character of sexuality which is based on the unequal power of sexual relations. SEXUAL POLITICS
To feel an identification with women (as opposed to men).Adrienne Rich Compulsory Heterosexuality and Lesbian Existence WOMAN IDENTIFICATION
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